Fine Arts and Education: A workshop

with Don Dippo, Associate Dean Faculty of Education

and Belarie Zatzman, Faculty of Fine Arts

Monday 23 November @ 10:30 in the Senior Common Room, 021 Winters College

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Byron Wall

New Orleans: A Disaster Waiting to Happen that Happened

Thursday November 26 @ 11:30

Senior Common Room 021 Winters College    Details      Poster

Winters College Office of the Master
Is Pleased to Present: Sinfonia Toronto

Wednesday 9 December @ 5:30 in the Dining Hall in Winters College

Free Admission  Details

Art Therapy

The practice of art can be a relaxing and calming experience. I invite you to join me in a creative session aimed to quiet the mind & uplift the spirit.
NO TALENT REQUIRED!!
 & EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND

Eleanor Winters Art Gallery , 129 Winters College

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Lorène Bourgeois:

An Exhibition of charcoal drawings and paintings opens at Glendon Gallery

Enveloppes du corps, an exhibition of charcoal drawings and paintings on paper and slate by Lorène Bourgeois, has opened at the Glendon Gallery.

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York history Professor Paul Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, is a recipient of the Research Merit Award. As director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Lovejoy is a leading scholar who has pioneered the study of the history and dynamics of the African diaspora from an African perspective.

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Art Therapy

The practice of art can be a relaxing and calming experience. I invite you to join me in a creative session aimed to quiet the mind & uplift the spirit.
NO TALENT REQUIRED!!
 & EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND

Eleanor Winters Art Gallery , 129 Winters College

Details

Critical Thinking

Professor Rob Kenedy, Sociology

Organizing your ideas; thinking straight; what works and doesn't work.

Senior Common Room, 021 Winters College   @ 2:00

Refreshments will be served

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MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP FOR A TECHNICAL WORLD

GEORGE MOON
George Moon has over thirty years of experience in the fields of technical management and leadership in various executive positions as well as building complex software systems. Mr. Moon has expertise in the fields of technical and executive management, research and development.
214 Calumet College    Details

Winters College Flea Market

Tuesday and Wednesday November 17&18 -10am-8pm

Dining Hall, Winters College

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Susan Musgrave has published 25 books. She is a poet, novelist, children’s writer, essayist, columnist, and frequent guest on the CBC. She has been described as everything from a stand-up comedian to an eco-feminist.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:30am – 1pm
Room 214 Calumet College  Details

Harriet Lewis

University Governance: What does the University Secretary and General Counsel really do?

12:30 - 2:00 pm Samuel Beckett Theatre 112 Stong College

“Life as Expropriation (Arendt and Others)”

Rei Terada, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine

4pm 201 Stong College (Sylvester’s)

Saxophonist Mike Murley

Nationally acclaimed saxophonist Mike Murley (BFA Spec. Hons. ’86) steps into the spotlight tomorrow evening as the featured performer in York University’s Faculty Concert Series.

Tuesday @ 7:30 Tribute Communities Recital Hall in the Accolade East Building

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Surfaces of Memory:

Fine Arts celebrates research with Interstices in Identity:

Tuesday November 17: 9pm to 4:30 pm

1009 Technology Enhanced Learning Building

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Weather Report screening replaces today's Walter L. Gordon Lecture

Film Professor Brenda Longfellow, award-winning filmmaker, writer and theorist, will present her most recent production, the 2008 feature-length documentary Weather Report as the centrepiece of the Faculty of Fine Arts Research Celebration today at noon in 1009 Technology Enhanced Learning Building.

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 “Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place”

Walter L. Gordon Lecture

Shelley Hornstein, professor of architectural history and urban culture in the Department of Visual Arts at York.

Tuesday @ noon at 1009 Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Building.  

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"The Life and Times of Roy McMurtry: A Retrospective"

the Honourable R. Roy McMurtry, O.C., O.Ont, QC,
Chancellor of York University

Senior Common Room 010 Vanier College at 3:00

2009 Goldfarb Lecture in Visual Arts at York University

Peggy Phelan

“Andy Warhol Again: Repetition, Death & Counting”

312 Joan & Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts @2:30

Championnat de Soccer Fémenin 2009

York 1 UBC 2 in overtime-

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You are invited to join us at

The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Open House 321 York Lanes Offices

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Depression: What is it and what can we do about it?

Dr. Heather Fleet, CAMH

Wednesday November 11, 2009, 1:00 pm

Room 010 Vanier College: Details and Poster

The Aeneid: A Compendium of Scenes from Virgil

A dynamic mix of opera, oratorio, cantata, dance and digital media, this contemporary retelling of an ancient tale-

Wednesday  11  November @ 7:30

Tribute Communities Recital Hall. Details

THE PRACTICE OF EXECUTION IN CANADA

KEN LEYTON-BROWN
Ken Leyton-Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Regina, where he teaches courses in Ancient History and Modern Legal History. He was the first coordinator of that University’s degree program in Police Studies and developed its degree program in Justice Studies.
 214 Calumet College    Details

Bodyworks: A Symposium

The symposium will underscore the ways in which overcoming physical and mental limitations in sport can help us dissolve perceived barriers of all kinds, including socio-cultural, political, and intellectual limitations, and how artistic practice and performance can lead to creative problem-solving and research breakthroughs in many diverse fields.

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jean-pierre gorin:   Film Maker

312 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts @2:30

Calvin @ 500 and York @ 50
Phil McEwin

The year 2009 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin and the 50th anniversary of York University. Do Calvin and York have anything in common besides a numerical coincidence?

Senior Common Room, McLaughlin College

  Stong College

Day of the Dead

Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

Junior Common Room, 201 Stong College

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GULCH@EWAG

Come join Steel Bananas in celebrating the birth of GULCH!
The book is out! The art is up! The music will be playing, and the readers will be reading!   Details
Eleanor Winters Art Gallery
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Cuatro brings together four solo dances

Oct. 28 to 30, at 7pm nightly in the McLean Performance Studio,

244 Accolade East Building -General admission is $15

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STEPHEN C. DUNNETT
Professor of Foreign Language Education and Vice Provost for International Education at SUNY Buffalo

GLOBAL COMPETENCE: ARE YOU READY FOR THE WORLD?

1:00 to 2:30 PM, 214 Calumet College
RSVP by October 27th 2009

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 McLaughlin

    College

Get the inside track on graduate studies

For anyone who may by considering graduate studies at York, the Faculty of Graduate Studies is hosting a workshop about getting the inside track on graduate studies.

103 McLaugfhlin College @1:45

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Harry Arthurs, President Emeritus, York University

presents The View from the Ninth Floor, 1985 - 1992
Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

in Room 010 Vanier College, Senior Common Room

Open to Everyone

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Vanier

College

Winters  

College  

The Canine/Human Bond

Readings (with lunch)

The Renaissance, 001 Vanier College

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Join Eleanor Winters Art Gallery and the Winters Free Press for a Comic Jam:
Monday, October 26 at 7:30pm
All you need to do is show up ready to draw. We provide paper, pencils, and sustenance: FREE NACHOS!
Winning comics will be published in the Winters Free Press. Lots more prizes to be had for participants.
See you there!

A Workshop

Steel Band with Selwyn McSween

Tuesday 27 October 5-7 pm

Junior Common Room, 012 Winters College

RSVP Steel Band  

The Chinese Cultural Centre Youth Chapter

2009 Chinese Canadian Youth Achievement Awards:

Deadline for application- 26 October

Vanier

College

A modern retelling of Aladdin, Secondary Wishes, hits York stage tonight at the Fred Thury Theatre in Vanier: @8:00 http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=13495

Caribbean music icon Desmond Waithe to give 2009 Lise Waxer Memorial Lecture tomorrow, Friday 23 October @ 7:30: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=13494

Academic Writing

Priscila Uppal, Creative Writing, English and Humanities

Professor Uppal is an accomplished poet and a member of York's Programme in Creative writing.  Her workshop will offer useful hints for improving your academic writing.

Senior Common Room, 021 Winters College 2:00

Please RSVP to: Winters College

Vanier

College

Anxiety Disorders and how to best treat them

Wednesday October 21, 2009 at 12:00 noon

in Room 010 Vanier College, Senior Common Room

Presented by Dr. Lakshmi Ravindran, CAMH

Presented in partnership with Counselling and Disability Services.

Peter Silverman

Media and the Military

Noted journalist Peter Silverman will give us his keen insights into the complicated relationship between the media and the military.

Senior Common Room, 021 Winters College  @ 14:00

Refreshments will be served  Details

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Here are some useful links: 

Important Dates Fall/Winter 2009/2010

Student Code of Conduct 

These services are available all year.

Learning Skills Centre

Career Centre

The following two are also available year round:

Client Services: Client Services in the Bennett Centre

Financial Services

Part Time Jobs:

• at the York Call Centre

• The Absinthe Pub and Coffee Shop